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Feather-tassel girdle (maro?) made of brown, fairly coarse barkcloth, with eight pendants of glossy green-black and purple-black cock feathers. Bunches of frigate bird feathers at top and ends of pendants. Chipped white feathers at the top of each pendant. One tassel has a band of long, thin red-dyed chicken feathers. Feathers are attached to a central string of vegetable fibre.
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